My solicitor treats me like an idiot!

ruggedtoast

Some solicitors won't do searches until the survey has come back. As you have been advised on your other thread, the subsidence damage and insurance claim you are attempting to conceal from your buyer will most likely have to be addressed before you get to exchange of contract.

ladymagpie

This is why I'm glad we got a mortgage broker/financial adviser. We went through them for almost everything (home and life insurance, etc) and during the house buying process, especially after our bank confirmed the mortgage, I would receive an email at least twice a day from them emailing the solicitor asking what's going on, as well as ringing our bank every day.

chickaroonee

It's definitely you ea who should be chasing the other side, not the solicitor. The EA does this day in, day out so I'd get back on to them and put the pressure there.

Windsorcastle

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Your solicitor can only enquire. They have no right to dictate to the other side when they do things and to what timescale, in the way that your post seems to envisage.

I know that you have a date by which you want to have moved. However, if I was your buyer, I'd be starting to get worried about you as a seller.

Take these things together from a buyer's perspective:

1. On your 'how do I chase a slow buyer' thread you've been advised that several surveying firms have a backlog and that the delay is unlikely to be down to the buyer, but you want to hassle the buyer nevertheless.

2. On your 'how to answer surveyor's questions' and 'next door's subsidence' threads, you have made an insurance claim for repairs to cracks caused by tree roots, but want to cover this up if possible.

3. Now you're trying to harass and bully the buyer's solicitor in what could be interpreted (not saying this is your intention but how it might appear) as an attempt to try to get them to hasten over things which might be discerned if greater attention was provided.

If you raise too many flags, people will get suspicious and your attempts could well backfire so that your sale falls through completely.

Thanks Yorkie, I take your points on board. It's because I am worried about the survey that I want it to happen asap - not because I want to 'hide' things, but because I'd rather know asap if the buyer is going to pull out so that I can rethink and look for cash buyer/auction sale or whatever.

I truly don't seek to harass or bully anyone, but simply to get the process moving along as it's in everyone's interests (mine and the buyer's) to know asap if there's a problem with the sale proceeding. Surely I'm not the first seller to be panicking about timescale and obsessing over every detail?!

Thrugelmir

Windsorcastle wrote: »

Surely I'm not the first seller to be panicking about timescale and obsessing over every detail?!

And you won't be the last either.

kwmlondon

Thrugelmir wrote: »

I doubt people would pay for the service you've outlined. Besides which no manual can account for human nature. As it's individual timescales that often steer the process along. So organising a chain into a proceedable state is no easy task.

If the EA is any good. Then they'll have an office handler that will keep all parties informed of developments.

Well, the company that contracted my conveyancers have some very good FAQ guides on their website:

http://easier2move.co.uk/Conveyancing/Conveyancing-FAQ.aspx

And my convayancers use an online tool to log all important dates: this is what I see (important bits blakned out, of course!) http://checkthis.com/6av9
By the way, the companies you see on the page are highly recommended!